Hut circles, enclosures, pounds and reaves - where prehistoric Dartmoor lived and farmed.
The deserted medieval settlement at Blackaton: at least eleven buildings (six longhouses), a manor first recorded in 1229 with 13th-century pottery, owned by the Pipards and later the Southcotts, with a chapel recorded in the 18th century.
Broadun enclosed settlement: a circular enclosure 300 m by 260 m with a bank up to 5 m wide, at least 36 hut circles (eleven dug in 1894), a pen, a cairn clipped by the Cherry Brook gunpowder mills leat.
“Life has become like that great Grimpen Mire, with little green patches everywhere into which one may sink and with no guide to point the track.”
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An enclosed settlement of eight joined enclosures and four stone hut circles on the edge of Buckland Common, part of the Rippon Tor coaxial field system.
Bronze Age settlement remains scattered across the open moorland.
Part of the Buttern Hill coaxial field system with three parallel reaves and two hut circles, a 10.1 m one with a double upright-stone wall and a porch, and a 4.4 m one.
Four scheduled monuments on the slopes of Cox Tor: two cairnfields, part of the Whitchurch Common coaxial field system and a reave later used by troops.
The deserted medieval settlement at Challacombe: at least seven buildings along a track, one with its walls intact and three rooms, first recorded in 1481 as Chalvecombe, five tenements by 1613 and lived in until at least 1880.
A hut circle settlement above Cherry Brook with an enclosure and 14 huts, two cairns with cists on its east edge, and a post-medieval house and linhay cutting through the enclosure.
A hut circle settlement in four areas on the upper south-west slope of Combshead Tor, huts of upright-stone walls 0.7 to 1 m high, 13.1 to 50.2 square metres inside.
